News Archives – 2009
December 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, “Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 80, No. 24, 245115 (5 pages).
December 3, 2009: the paper A. Alù, “Effect of Small Random Disorders and Imperfections on the Performance of Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.
November 30, 2009: the paper A. Alù, “Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
November 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Power relations and a consistent analytical model for receiving wire antennas,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
November 19, 2009: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A General Class of Metamaterial Transformation Slabs,” has been posted on arxiv.
November 1, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “On Certain Design Criteria for Nanoantennas in the Visible,” has been published in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Special Issue on Functional Nanophotonics and Nanoelectromagnetics, Vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 2009-2015, (invited paper).
October 12, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an all-optical metamaterial circuit board at the nanoscale,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143902 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 15.
October 6, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 15, 153901, October 6, 2009.
September 30, 2009: Andrea Alù has become an Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
September 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an All-Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 14, 143902.
September 21, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-Chain Optical Nanotransmission Line for Low-Loss Ultra-Confined Light Beam,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 113101 (2009), has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 19, No. 21.
September 16, 2009: M. D. Guild has won the best student paper award at Auxetics 2009with our paper M. D. Guild, M. R. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Acoustic Wave Scattering Cancellation Using Auxetic Materials and Layers with Negative Stiffness Inclusions,” Bolton, U.K.
September 14, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies,” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
September 8, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-Chain Optical Nanotransmission Line for Low-Loss Ultra-Confined Light Beam,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 80, No. 11, 113101 (4 pages).
August 30, 2009: Mina Jean Hanna has joined our groupas a new undergraduate research assistant.
August 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an All-Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
July 31, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 043902 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 5.
July 28, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-chain optical nanotransmission line for low-loss ultra-confined light beam,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
July 21, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 4, 043902.
July 6, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” Phys. Rev. Lett.102, 233901 (2009), has been selected in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 19, No. 12.
July 6, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Coaxial-to-waveguide matching with ε-near-zero ultranarrow channels and bends,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
July 5, 2009: Xing-Xiang Liu has joined our groupas a new graduate student.
June 29, 2009: the paper D. A. Powell, A. Alù, B. Edwards, A. Vakil, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. Engheta, “Nonlinear control of tunneling through an ε-near-zero channel,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 79, No. 24, 245135 (5 pages).
June 26, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 235412 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 19, No. 26.
June 19, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.June 15, 2009: Pai-Yen Chenhas joined our groupas a new graduate student.
June 12, 2009: the paper D. A. Powell, A. Alù, B. Edwards, A. Vakil, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. Engheta, “Nonlinear control of tunneling through an ε-near-zero channel,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 10, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 79, No. 23, 235412 (12 pages).
June 8, 2009: a Viewpoint article by Prof. F. Javier Garcia de Abajo highlighting our recent paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” Phys. Rev. Lett.102, 233901 (2009) has been published in Physics, Vol. 2, No. 47!
June 8, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, No. 23, 233901.
April 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
April 15, 2009: the news brief “Cloaked eye still sees,” highlighting our recent PRL paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has appeared in Science News!April 9, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
March 25, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “The quest for magnetic plasmons at optical frequencies,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 5723-5730, March 25, 2009.
March 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “The quest for magnetic plasmons at optical frequencies,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
March 4, 2009: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.10, 093002 (17 pages), 2008 has been selected in the Journal of Optics Highlightsfor 2008.
February 18, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Reflectionless sharp bends and corners in waveguides using epsilon-near-zero effects,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, No. 4, 044905 (4 pages).
February 17, 2009: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 3101-3114.
February 14, 2009: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
January 20, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical nanoswitch: an engineered plasmonic nanoparticle with extreme parameters and giant anisotropy,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 11, 013026 (14 pages).